Joy Kirkpatrick and Heather McKean interviewed by Rob Willis [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3666657
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- McKean, Joy, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, written permission is required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewees.
- Description:
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- 2006
- 5 sound files (ca. 291 min.)
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Joy Kirkpatrick and Heather McKean talk about their early childhood memories; schooling; family background; contracting polio; hospitalisation and rehabilitation; the last epidemic of polio; reaction of peers towards their disability; sporting capabilities; music in the family; parents musical skills; music lessons; performances and radio; yodelling styles; instruments played; developing their musical act; tracing their career from charity work to talent quests; Sorlie's; Bobby Le Brun; learning stage craft; radio stations playing country music; Bonnington's Bunk House Show; touring, rodeos, tent shows and travelling shows; Rodeo Records; harmony yodelling and the technique; Reg Lindsay; Frank Ifield; music and lifestyle while touring; Radio Ranch; Spurs magazine; attitude towards country music today and comparison to the past attitudes; Slim Dusty; marriages.
Joy Kirkpatrick and Heather McKean speak about showgrounds and showground culture; life of the showmen; the Showman's Guild; Big Chief Little Wolf; Johnny O'Keefe; Tommy Castles show; Tex Morton and his performances; Athol McCoy; Shirley Toms and her influence; the role of women at shows; children touring with their parents and their education; the emergence of rock n roll and change in audiences; Chad Morgan; collecting written material; Dave Kirkpatrick; Billy Kyle and the Kyle family; the Nulla; living conditions when travelling; awards received; International Country Music Show; working in the U.S.A. and learning about country music associations; the Grand Ole Opry; success of early country music artists; country music associations in Australia; CMMA in Tamworth; country music in U.S.A.; early artists assisting with the establishment of country music.
- Partial contents:
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- Songs: Runaway train (fragment)
- I miss my Swiss (fragment). Talk about songs: Lights on the hill
- Front Row.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on April 12-13, 2006 at Canberra, A.C.T.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Related Material:
- Collection of portraits of Joy Kirkpatrick and Heather McKean taken during an oral history interview by Rob Willis at the National Library of Australia, 12-13 April 2006; located at; National Library of Australia Pictures collection PIC Online access #NL39568
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available (14 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Singers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2076 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2006
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